I made a little game-OST quiz

Maturin · Post by **Maturin** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 23:31

Hey there.

I made a little game-soundtrack quiz, like www.setto.de , I wrote it in html with a little javascript, no problem so far. Nevertheless I have a few questions:

Right now I'm using a 3rd party flash-player for the mp3s but so far I'm only publishing this quiz in private since I'm not sure if using that player is legal. So do you know where I can get a simple flash-player? I don't want to embed the sound directly since firefox for example needs quicktime in order to have a control panel. And putting these songs up as <bgsound>... imagining that is just horrible...

My second question concerns a free hosting service. It should support files up to 1.5MB and it would be nice if it also gave me a nice url although that's not necessary.

I hope you're able to help me with these things, if yes, I'll of course provide the link in our forum here.

Post by **Zyx** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:20

Nice quiz, I can't believe I actually recognized six.

I've seen that flash-based mp3 player elsewhere, but I can't find it's homepage. There are other players available, I've seen these two quite often: JW FLV player and musicplayer. They're both free to use. Of course, the one you're using might be too, but because I don't know where it's from I don't know.

Maturin · Post by **Maturin** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 13:33

The thing about setto is, there wasn't any new quiz for more than a year. He promised an update and a new quiz in november but I don't think there's going to be any, no update ever since. We all usually like these quizzes so I decided trying to create a few myself. As soon as I get everything running I'm planning the creation of other quizzes, I have a few cool ones in mind and I found out it's a lot of fun creating one.

One more thing: What can I do to prevent people from just simply reading the solutions in the source code?

And thank you very much for your recommendations Zyx, I just checked out that music-player, it looks perfectly suited for my needs.

Post by **Zyx** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 18:55

About solutions in source code. If you're doing it fully in javascript, there isn't much you can do. Even if you write the answers to a file and read from there at run-time, the user can still read that file himself. You can only make it difficult enough that very few bother, but not impossible.